Karnataka

Bengaluru, Oct 4: Following a unanimous resolution in the State legislature, Karnataka ended its defiance of the Supreme Court's orders and started the release of 6,800 cusecs of water for irrigation purposes from the KRS dam at 8 p.m. on Monday; a large portion of this water is expected to reach Tamil Nadu. The move comes in the wake of the court's observation on September 30, warning Karnataka

Udupi, Oct 3: A Muslim student of final year BCA studying at a private college at Kundapur town in Udupi district was assaulted by an Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) just because speaking to a girl student of the same college on Monday. The incident occurred at Bhandarkars' Arts & Science College. Two Muslim male students, Akif and Mazhar, were coming out of the exam hall. A girl student

Mangaluru, Oct 3: The Janata Dal (Secular) has decided to field its candidates in all eight Assembly segments in Dakshina Kannada for the 2018 elections and already finalised one candidate. Announcing this at a press meet here on Monday, K Amarnath Shetty, vice-president of the party's state unit and former Minister, said that Ashwin Perera would contest from Mulki-Moodbidri constituency. He said

Mangaluru, Oct 3: Ten days after a local Congress leader was murdered at Ivarnadu in Sullia taluk, Dakshina Kannada district police have cracked the case and arrested seven accused including plotters and contract killers. Ismail (52), a resident of Nelyamajalu village and president of Congress Minority Wing of local unit, was brutally hacked to death by a gang of miscreants on September 23 in

Almost two decades after her debut novel The God of Small Things won the Booker Prize, Arundhati Roy has announced her second work of fiction. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, as Roy's new novel is called, is being published by Hamish Hamilton UK and Penguin India. "I am glad to report that the mad souls (even the wicked ones) in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness have found a way into the world

Bengaluru, Oct 3: The ailing Air India is moving towards a turnaround and expecting even better performance after narrowing June quarter loss to Rs 246 crore from Rs 316 crore in the year-ago period. "Yes, we are definitely moving towards that turnaround. Last year it was good. This year would be better. Next year should be even better. We narrowed our June quarter loss to Rs 246 crore from Rs 316

Mangaluru, Oct 3: S M Rashid Haji, president, Dakshina Kannada Wakf Advisory Committee, has exhorted the Muslim clerics in this coastal district to deliver religious sermons in mosques and madrasas in Beary language. Speaking after inaugurating the Beary Language Day organised by the Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy at its office in the city on Monday, he said that sermons in Beary language would

Riyadh, Oct 3: Saudi government workers will be paid according to the Gregorian calendar instead of the Islamic Hijri calendar, making the working month longer as part of cost-cutting measures, newspapers reported on Monday. The change, approved by cabinet last week, brings civil service pay in line with the government's January-December fiscal year, the Arab News and Saudi Gazette reported. The

Mangaluru, Oct 3: A 26-year-old woman who was doing preparations to fly abroad died after she accidentally brushed her teeth with poison mistaking it for tooth paste at a remote village in Dakshina Kannada. The victim is Kavitha, hailing from Savanoor in Puttur, who was married to a Non-Resident Indian from Kundapur. She was supposed to join her husband within a couple of months. Last week she had

New Delhi, Oct 3: Supreme Court today asked the Karnataka government to apprise it by tomorrow afternoon whether it has released water to Tamil Nadu as directed by it on September 30. The Centre also moved the apex court seeking modification of its earlier order asking it to constitute the Cauvery Water Management Board (CWMB) by Tuesday. Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the Centre